Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough
Subtitle: Germany's Difficult Passage to Modernity (Policies and Institutions, V. 4)
Contributors: Carl F. Lankowski (Editor); Andrei S. Markovits (Editor)
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781571812117
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); European studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; c 1800 to c 1900; Contemporary Politics - Germany; Germany - History - Post Unification (1989-); Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Political History; Europe - Germany; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Democracy; Germany; History; Political culture; Unification, 1990
Description: "Germany's institutional anatomy, its norms, and the spirits that animate it can only be properly understood if one takes into account such factors as its economic power and central position within Europe.

This volume traces the difficult passage of German society to modernity offering new perspectives on the "German question," largely characterized by the absence of key ideological underpinnings of democracy in the early modern period and a constitutional exceptionalism on the eye of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.